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Title Commandment and community : new essays in Jewish legal and political philosophy / edited by Daniel H. Frank
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages)
Series SUNY series in Jewish philosophy
SUNY series in Jewish philosophy.
Contents Toward a Jewish philosophy of justice / Lenn E. Goodman -- Is a Jewish practical philosophy possible? / Oliver Leaman -- Reason in action : the "practicality" of Maimonides's Guide / Daniel H. Frank -- Jewish tradition and national policy / Elliot N. Dorff -- Underdetermination of meaning by the Talmudic text / Aryeh Botwinick -- Nachmanides's conception of Taàmei Mitzvot and its Maimonidean background / Josef Stern -- The attitude toward democracy in medieval Jewish philosophy / Abraham Melamed -- Abravanel and the Jewish republican ethos / Reuven Kimelman -- Spinoza's challenge to the doctrine of election / David Novak -- Morality and war : a critique of Bleich's oracular halakha / Noam J. Zohar -- Response to Noam Zohar / J. David Bleich -- Reply to David Bleich / Noam J. Zohar
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Judaism and politics -- Congresses
Jewish law -- Philosophy -- Congresses
Jewish philosophy -- Congresses
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Theology.
Jewish law -- Philosophy
Jewish philosophy
Judaism and politics
Judaism.
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Frank, Daniel H., 1950-
LC no. 94018406
ISBN 0585033358
9780585033358
9781438403199
1438403194